I'm gonna be offline tomorrow to be as unvisible (that's a word, look it up) as possible, but you should still buy this bundle full of things that deserve as much visibility as possible and also all of your money don't be cheap

I think about this tweet by @laurakbuzz.bsky.social a lot these days, and how damn near everybody basically leapt at the chance to throw us under the bus when the announcement came just a few months later.

"I have to buy the wizardslop, it doesn't say anything about who I am as a person, I engage with all sorts of art made by people I don't agree with." "Oh okay, so have you bought much trans art?" "Fuck no those people are weird."

I think with the level of venom with which AI proponents have treated artists, writers, musicians, whole creative industries, they deserve at the very least to have that venom met in kind, and I hope it stings. I'm only sorry it hasn't happened sooner. Party's over, enjoy the hangover.

Working in a pandemic world is just listening to colleagues say “there must be something going around” on a weekly basis for years and trying to decide if you wanna remind them it’s covid or silently scream into the void again.

Liberalism has been the dominant ideology for over a century at this point. To identify as liberal is to be broadly comfortable with the system - and therefore with the hierarchy it produces. So yes, when one of us queers speaks out of line they feel like a subordinate is talking back to them.

Good people, please fill out those Anthropic claims. Settlement is going to be around $3000 per book. "Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion plus interest into a settlement fund, equating to approximately $3,000 for each work covered by the settlement." www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-....

Now is a great time to not normalize the TSA. They've destroyed thousands of cumulative years of people's lives in the name of fascistic security theater.

semi regular reminder that the Mueller, She Wrote grifter used her COVID payroll assistance loan on a swimming pool and then never paid it back hope you see this you name searching scumbag 👍

i have professionally intersected with ui/ux a number of times & i’m sure no expert but i feel well qualified enough to say whoever decided to put a “what’s up?” text field at the top of the app in addition to the normal post icon at the bottom maybe has dry cereal where a brain should be.

Pete Hesgeth said in a room full of people "The problem with Iran is it spends money on weapons and missiles instead of improving life for their people," and not one person laughed at him

It's so telling how we all implicitly understand that "lonely" is code for "horny". If straight men are so lacking for someone to spend time around, they can just do that with each other. But for ~~sOmE rEaSoN~~ that's not considered acceptable.

It’s true! People always reach for something recent like GamerGate or 4chan, and pin all the blame on that, but Nazis were setting up BBSes for recruitment all the way back in the 1980s.

America isn't being destroyed by clever people. It is being destroyed by some of the dumbest motherf*ckers who ever walked the face of the Earth.

remember how everyone got worried about Chinese apps a few years ago because they collected data that ostensibly the Chinese government could access? that was wild.

Anticommunism is the core component of fascism.

Does anyone remember that time someone was angrily tweeting at a beverage brand that their product was worse than piss and the brand replied with a picture of an employee holding a jar of their own urine?

How many episodes of Black Mirror have tech bros explicitly tried to manifest at this point?

They want to make us criminals for needing to pee. Please understand that this is the tip of an agenda designed to give trans people two choices: house arrest or imprisonment. Either we lock ourselves inside or they lock us up and forcibly detransition and torture us. This is exterminationist.

"DLSS5 imakes them look like AI!" because it IS genAI, fundamentally. It's running your frames through some proprietary model trained on what nvidia looks good (which is very telling) and putting em up on your monitor before you even notice. This is the evolution of them using it for interpolation.

For those who were too young or out of the loop, Adam Baldwin was the celebrity mouthpiece of Gamergate, a toxic movement dedicated to harassing women in the video game industry. Even *Joss Whedon* begged him to stop when it was at its height, and Baldwin flat-out refused.

Imagine filing your annual income taxes only for your government to collapse the very next day.

i honestly can't stand seeing people say Gen AI is a disability aid because if it was a disability aid, they wouldn't be putting this much money into it

thank you to this ally. this is true allyship right here. this is the bar you have to meet to say you are an ally to trans people. anything less and you're a fraud.

Back to the Future remake where Marty struggles to explain the situation to Past-Doc because the video he took of Present-Doc saying “1.21 gigawatts” is on an iPhone whose battery was at 3% when he left the house.

The popular conception of the hyper-competent villain who’s always five steps ahead is itself fascist propaganda. Remember all the jokes about how Thanos should’ve just doubled resources? Same thing. They’re just bloodthirsty dipshits with exactly enough impulse control to get buy-in from liberals.

If you didn't call your reps about Internet privacy yesterday, call twice today.

if any of these ppl opposed transphobic legislation on the basis that it's bad to abuse us and lie about us rather than just saying some shit like "this does nothing to address trump's affordability crisis" they'd get my vote so fucking easily

Drown the FDA with proposal people, you have to understand the way things are going a ban of HRT till kill swaths of my people on the entire US. You have to make the push back so massive and loud that they back down. Please!

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

u know what else is a boxy electric shuttle

denial of trans care is fascism

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Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

Getting old is exhausting. I’ve lost count of the number of techno-pastoral cycles I’ve personally witnessed. Related: these cycles always spawn people (rightly!) criticizing them, as in the quoted skeet. I kept waiting for a Stardew Valley mention, but I guess that belongs to an older cycle now.

Evergreen.

Firefly is the perfect sci-fi to embody this political moment (derogatory).

these craven fucks are lower than dirt. dogshit opposition party

Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent. Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates. Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously. This is what congress is advancing today 👇🏻

I am currently of the opinion that atproto is unfit for use in social media (POSIWID), and shit like this is just gonna keep happening. You either break the protocol, or you break your site.

Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day. Celebrate by giving money to sex workers, and pressuring your government to decriminalize sex work of all kinds.

i am once again informing all of you that i am never voting for him under any circumstances

My favorite part is when the hero says, “I agree with your goals, but not your methods”; stops the villain (often using the villain’s methods); then never again thinks of the goals they agreed with.

Back in high school, I had a Navy recruiter come *to my house,* trying to convince me I was gonna be Tom Cruise in Top Gun. My parents were right next to him, reminding me there's no chance in hell they can pay for college. My people-pleasing ass found a way to say No, so miss me with your excuses.

Just as I was about to hit post on a thread I wrote (5 skeets? 6?), Bluesky logged me out and refreshed the browser window. Whole thread is gone; didn’t auto-save to drafts or anything. What a piece-of-shit website.

In 2024, before Biden dropped out of the race, I pissed off a *lot* of my irl friends by saying his then-current term as President was essentially “hospice care for the dying American Empire”, but I 100% stand by it. Democrats see themselves as the tortoise, slow-and-steadying their way to victory.

The Columbine shooters chose Hitler’s birthday (April 20th) to do the deed. Like, it was genuinely weird how intensely all of it was swept under the rug.

Mister Rogers would be so disappointed in people who use AI slop.